Sister Of My Heart And Peace Like A River

Introduction

Sister of My Heart by Dicakaruni is the first of two books about two young Indian girls who are as close as sisters. In this book we are introduced to the characters of Anju and Sudha. Anju is from a high caste family in Calcutta and Sudah, her cousin is from the disreputable side of the same family. Sudha has remarkable beauty while Anju is plain and common. However, something binds them closely together (Chitra Banerjee, pp 23-78). While Ruben Land has not had a normal life. The first miracle he witnessed was at his birth when, not breathing for a full ten seconds, his father ordered him to breathe. His father continued to perform miracles like these when no one else was looking. But when Ruben's older brother Davy is wanted for murder and goes into hiding, the whole family is thrown in to turmoil. They set off out west in search of the brother, but the FBI is looking for him as well. With elements of westerns as well as of inspiration fiction, this truly is a work unlike anything else.

Characters Analysis

Sister Of My Heart “Anju” Characters

From the book it is critically analysed that Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born--the same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violentlySudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged. When Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is threatened (Chitra Banerjee, pp 34-282).

Also it was observed that the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust-Sudha, because she feels a new shame that she cannot share with Anju; and Anju, because she discovers the seductive power of her sister's beauty, a power Sudha herself is incapable of controlling. When, due to a change in family fortune, the girls are urged into arranged marriages, their lives take opposite turns. One travels to America, and one remains in India; both have lives of secrets. When tragedy strikes both of them, however, they discover that, despite distance and marriage, they must turn to each other once again (Softky, pp 34-239).

Evidently in the book Sister of My Heart, Anju, who will give birth to a baby soon, tirelessly worked to earn money for Sudha and her baby to come to America. To illustrate, when Anju finds out that Sudha had left her husband's house and would be living with the three mothers in India, she realized that she should help her cousin(Chitra Banerjee, pp 34-282). When Anju was told by her doctor that she might have to stop earning money for Sudha, she said this, "If I dropped out of ...